I want to install a temporary feed through a concrete floor for a rising main to the kitchen, in readiness for the water board to connect to in the future, as I am fitting a kitchen. Can I do this? If so, how deep do I need to take the pipe and how much slack should I leave outside the property?
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The water Board have to approve a number of requirements and you need to work in conjuction with them or they don't connect it.
There is a need for 100mm ducting and possibly insulation from where pipe enters property at 750 mm below ground level to where it exits in kitchen (or other room) ground level of kitchen, garden/yard and outside your property may all be different. I'm doing one at the moment, kitchen floor is higher than yard floor by 200mm. Outside boundary is 250 mm lower than yard so the 750 mm becomes 1000 mm at that end of trench.
My plastic pipe is in danger of damage from cinders/clinker, there being no soft soil. so 40 mm ducting is being laid along the whole length.
I would think you could put the 100 mm ducting in place so you would not need to disturb the kitchen too much at a later stage. You'll need a 90 degree bend and some straight pipe.
There is a need for 100mm ducting and possibly insulation from where pipe enters property at 750 mm below ground level to where it exits in kitchen (or other room) ground level of kitchen, garden/yard and outside your property may all be different. I'm doing one at the moment, kitchen floor is higher than yard floor by 200mm. Outside boundary is 250 mm lower than yard so the 750 mm becomes 1000 mm at that end of trench.
My plastic pipe is in danger of damage from cinders/clinker, there being no soft soil. so 40 mm ducting is being laid along the whole length.
I would think you could put the 100 mm ducting in place so you would not need to disturb the kitchen too much at a later stage. You'll need a 90 degree bend and some straight pipe.
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Thanks for your info. I thought I'd need to contact the WB, hopefully they will be quick in responding. However, another question......... my kitchen is below ground level as it's an old cottage which has a drive going up the side which is higher than the ground level to kitchen floor. I'm going to dig a trench and back fill with gravel for soak away, but does this mean I'll need to go 750mm below this with my ducting?
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